Foot and Mouth Disease GE 1092 English Composition IA Abstract Hand‚ foot and mouth disease is a viral infection‚ usually caused by Coxsackievirus A. It’s highly contagious and spreads through coughing‚ sneezing‚ sneezes‚ and even contact with infected stools. Hand‚ foot and mouth disease is common in children but rare in healthy adults. Most adults are immune to the virus because they had contact with it as a child. Early symptoms of hand‚ foot and mouth disease include a fever and
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Culture and Disease Paper: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Introduction to Health and Disease/HCS 245 July 28‚ 2013 Professor Culture and Disease Paper: Pulmonary Tuberculosis Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease that usually attacks the lungs. It is considered a challenging disease to diagnose‚ treat‚ and control. Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is usually referred to as TB. If it is not
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how much the Parkinson’s disease severity. Mobility assessment which is used to determine the mobility issues outside a
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Huntington’s Disease is a homozygous dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the HD gene. The mutation involves the basal ganglia‚ striatum and cerebral cortex parts of the brain and causes a CAG trinucleotide repetition. This repetition then proceeds to cause involuntary chorea‚ mood disorders‚ mental instability‚ and eventually leads to death. Since this is a relatively new discovery the Huntingtin gene is still mysterious in many ways to researchers. Many new discoveries have
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Communicable Disease HCS 457 June 4‚ 2012 Communicable Disease A communicable disease is a bacteria or virus that can is transferred from person to person‚ or from animals or the physical environment to individuals by a variety of ways. For example air and water‚ to contaminated articles or fomites‚ insect and animal bites (Reigelman‚ p. 210‚ 2011). The spreading of a communicable disease is easily transferred and can range from a common cold to anthrax making the disease contagious. I
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“Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease of the human brain that is characterized by impairment of memory and a disturbance in at least one other thinking function” (Bronstein & Pulst‚ 2003). When we hear about Alzheimer’s disease we automatically think of older people. This is because this disease most often occurs in adults after the age of 65. Statistics show that one in eight individuals will have Alzheimer’s after they reach age 65 (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields‚ 2002). Alzheimer’s disease is a
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OF CHRONIC DISEASES AMONG THE AGED IN CAPE COAST METROPOLITAN OVER LAST FOUR YEARS Introduction This paper charts a brief history of Ghana’s chronic disease burden over the last five years‚ focusing on prevalence‚ risk and illness implications in relation to aging. Two arguments are made. First‚ chronic diseases in Ghana constitute public health and developmental challenges‚ requiring the same intellectual and financial commitments afforded to communicable and infectious diseases. Information
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Celiac Disease Etiology: The exact cause of celiac (coeliac disease‚ celiac disease or celiac sprue) is still not fully understood. The majority of those with Celiac have one of two types of a protein called HLA-DQ‚ they will have either DQ2 or DQ8‚ which is inherited in families. The reason these genes make the person more at risk of the disease is that the receptors formed by the genes bind to gliadin peptides more tightly and are more likely to activate and initiate the autoimmune process. Celiac
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“Greening Disease: The Death of Citrus?” was produed as a result of your request. The report discusses the harm this disease does to citrus trees‚ it’s origin and how it is spread.it also discusses possible cures for it.this report focuses on the diseases impact on Florida only. There is no known cure for this disease as of now. This is a large reason of my report‚to raise questions and hopefully cause more research and maybe find a cure. Sincerely Kevin Bateman Greening Disease: The Death
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Running Head: LYME DISEASE The Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Justin Brewer Chamberlain College of Nursing NR 442: Community Health Nursing Spring‚ 2009 The Epidemiology of Lyme Disease Lyme disease is a significant public health concern in the United States. Despite a growing knowledge of the disease‚ the incidence of Lyme disease continues to increase (Corapi‚ White‚ Phillips‚ Daltroy‚ Shadick‚ & Liang‚ 2007). Borrelia burgdorferi‚ the bacteria that causes Lyme disease‚ is found naturally
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